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The “ice ball man” is back on the North Side. Gus Kalaris has been manning the bright orange ice ball cart under the rainbow-colored umbrella near West Park on Pittsburgh’s North Side for seven decades. The stand opened for the season on Wednesday, just in time for the Pirates home...

Bicycles continue to spin out of stores in record numbers. Last March, people began purchasing bicycles at the beginning of the pandemic. A year later, the industry continues to see an increase in sales — to the point where manufacturers are struggling to supply product, experts said. “We used to...

A Cheswick woman claimed in a lawsuit filed this week she was wrongfully fired last summer as an assistant manager of a Sheetz store after she refused to follow a company directive that initially ordered her to not attend a criminal court hearing to which she had been called to...

With the latest numbers released Friday by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, coronavirus cases are continuing to increase across the state. However, state hospitalizations for covid declined for the first time in nearly three weeks. That, combined with the fact that more than 20% of the state population has been...

Frick Park Snake is back — this time on social media. It was only a matter of time. The large black rat snake that captured Western Pennsylvania’s attention on Thursday surfaced on Twitter. And it has a sense of humor. Its description: Snacking on pets since your dad was a...

Dannielle Brown, the mother of a Duquesne University student who plummeted to his death from a dorm room window, has settled her claims against the university, according to a statement from her attorneys and the university. Marquis Jaylen ‘JB’ Brown had just turned 21 when, after an evening at a...

LONDON — Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined and constricted his life, has died, Buckingham Palace said Friday. He was 99. His life spanned nearly a century of European history,...

The vintage bottle-top glass detail on the front door of the Fox Chapel home gives a glimpse into its character. Western Pennsylvania was known as a center of glass before it became famous for steel. Built in 1940, the three-story Tudor house at 900 West Waldheim Road has been updated...

As elementary and high schools plot strategies to combat lost learning over the pandemic year, colleges and universities across the region are preparing to support a freshman class unlike any they have ever welcomed. Thousands of high school students poised to attend college next fall likely will be stepping out...

Two fires at opposite ends of Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County consumed nearly 500 acres of woodlands before they were extinguished early Friday morning, according to authorities. A fire along Dunbar Road in a state game lands areas was reported shortly after 5 p.m. and consumed more than 250...

RALEIGH — North Carolina health officials said on Thursday that they stopped administering Johnson & Johnson doses at a mass vaccination site in Raleigh and at clinics in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill after at least 26 people experienced adverse reactions, including fainting. Four people were taken to hospitals for further...

Allegheny Health Network is expanding eligibility for their covid-19 vaccine clinics this weekend to include those in Phase 1C of the state’s vaccine distribution plan. During clinics in Monroeville on Friday and Saturday, AHN plans to administer 13,000 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to those Phase 1A,...

BRYAN, Texas — A man opened fire Thursday at a Texas cabinet-making company where he worked, killing one person and wounding five others before shooting and wounding a state trooper prior to his arrest, authorities said. Bryan Police Chief Eric Buske told reporters he believes the suspect, whose name wasn’t...

Jeannette police and county detectives continue to investigate daylight shootings Wednesday that sent two boys to an area hospital. No arrests have been made, but police Chief Shannon Binda expects charges will be filed. The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. in the vicinity of the 100 block of Locust...

HARRISBURG — After a year of frustration over long waits for checks, jammed phone lines and confusing online filing procedures, Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry is promising a much quicker and easier unemployment compensation claims filing system in two months. The new system, scheduled to launch on June 8,...

HARRISBURG — A major Pennsylvania construction contractor was charged Thursday with stealing tens of millions of dollars from its own workers by systematically violating state and federal prevailing wage laws on taxpayer-funded public infrastructure projects. Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc. of State College, a 70-year-old company that booked $1.7 billion in...

No one knows who taught Griffin Croney CPR — including Griffin, himself — but everyone is relieved the 13-year-old from Allegheny Township somehow knew how to perform chest compressions. The teenager on Wednesday rescued his younger brother from drowning. “He’ll be a hero in my book forever,” said Rich Cantolina,...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor’s hardline immigration tactics. A complex mix of factors...

Coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania continue to rise overall, while cases in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties remain cautiously steady according to the latest data available from the state. Hospitalizations also continue to be a concern as the numbers rise. The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday reported 4,746 additional cases; the...

The search for what some might call a terrifyingly large snake in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park was called off Thursday, as it turns out he belongs there. Pittsburgh Public Safety tweeted mid-afternoon that reptile specialists helped Animal Care and Control identify the snake, captured in a photo by a parkgoer earlier...

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Former NFL player Phillip Adams fatally shot five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before killing himself early Thursday. York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson told a news conference that investigators had not yet determined a motive for Wednesday’s mass shooting. “There’s...

Firefighters are battling a blaze at a single-family home in Forest Hills Thursday morning. The fire in the 300 block of Avenue F, near Greensburg Pike, was reported shortly before 6 a.m. Authorities said the 2 1/2 story brick home was unoccupied when the fire broke out. Nobody was injured....

A fight after an infant’s birthday party ended in a fatal stabbing in Wilkinsburg early Thursday, leaving one man dead and his cousin charged with homicide, according to Allegheny County Police. Police received a call just before 12:30 a.m. about a stabbing at a home on Penn Avenue, said Sgt....